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Fat and formation in flight

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Predictions of flight performance in birds rely heavily on aerodynamic theory because it is difficult to measure energy consumption in flight. Fresh data leave part of the theory up in the air.

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Figure 1: On the wing — red knots, the birds Kvist et al.3 worked with.

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